{"id":9254,"date":"2016-12-07T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=9254"},"modified":"2016-12-07T10:44:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T16:44:43","slug":"people-book-geraldine-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/people-book-geraldine-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kindle version of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143115006\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0143115006&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=c7bd182e9533aa07bd63de2e0dc30432\">People of the Book: A Novel<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0143115006\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Geraldine Brooks is currently, and I suspect briefly, available for $1.99<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve not read it, you should read it.  <\/p>\n<p>Publisher&#8217;s summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called &#8220;a tour de force&#8221;by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript created in fifteenth-century Spain. When it falls to Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, to conserve this priceless work, the series of tiny artifacts she discovers in its ancient binding-an insect wing fragment, wine stains, salt crystals, a white hair-only begin to unlock its deep mysteries and unexpectedly plunges Hanna into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra-nationalist fanatics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kindle version of People of the Book: A Novel by Geraldine Brooks is currently, and I suspect briefly, available for $1.99 If you&#8217;ve not read it, you should read it. Publisher&#8217;s summary: Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/people-book-geraldine-brooks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-07-at-10.44.21-AM.png?fit=651%2C326&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2pg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9257,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/revisions\/9257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}